CIO Update for the Week of Jan 29

For the week of January 29th, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:

News

New

The Digital COE meets at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday

There is a TTVN Board Meeting at 2:00 p.m. on Friday

System-Wide Contracting News

New

A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development

Captioning Services will provide members with closed caption, transcription and subtitling solutions to make video accessible, searchable, SEO-friendly and more engaging; CATIE is restarting the process of identifying potential vendors

Learning Management Systems RFP responses have been received; A recommendation has been sent to Procurement to move forward with three vendors – D2L, Canvas and Blackboard

Maxient will provide members with a tool to manage student discipline, academic integrity and Title IX matters; A master services agreement has been sent to the Student Affairs Committee

Siteimprove checks web pages, every five days, for spelling, grammar, broken links and accessibility for 54 cents per web page per year (discretionary)

SmartEvals (Gap Technologies) provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)

Syncplicity licensing is available for all members (in annual assessment)

Varonis will provide members with insider threat protection (discretionary)

WebEx online collaboration and meeting software is available to all members at the low cost of $1.44 per month per license (discretionary)

WebQA is the TAMUS approved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) solution for all members (in annual assessment)

Projects

New

Workday

Sixty-three percent (36,997) of our 58,000 faculty, staff, student workers and retirees have logged into Workday since its December 17 go live!

Have you added your photo to your Workday profile? Check out Workday Help for easy instructions on how to add a photo to your profile (Login to SSO / Workday Help / Use Workday / Workday Basics / Change Photo (Employee)). Note: Photos are subject to manager approval